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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation of the administration of the Stanislav district, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the administration of the Stanislav district, 1941-1942 Included in the collection are lists of disabled people and orphans, and a form with instructions for the filling out of personal details.

  2. Documentation of the municipal administration in Berdichev, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Berdichev, 1941-1942 Included in the collection is documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner) in Berdichev, the Generalkommissar (regional commissioner) in Zhitomir and the mayor of Berdichev, regarding the registration of the population, the collection of winter clothing for Germans, [the decree regarding] wearing a yellow badge, and other matters, 1941-1942.

  3. M.41.BGOMIVOv-Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II)

    M.41.BGOMIVOv - Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) The history of the museum starts with the establishment of a Documentation Collection Committee regarding the Great Patriotic War, 02 June 1942. The museum was established by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia which was in Moscow at that time. V. D. Stalnov, the Committee Secretary, was appointed the first director of the museum. A short while after the liberation of Belorussia, the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia decided to es...

  4. O.42 - The Brueckheimer Collection regarding the Jewish communities in Bavaria and the Kristallnacht riots throughout Germany

    O.42 - The Brueckheimer Collection regarding the Jewish communities in Bavaria and the Kristallnacht riots throughout Germany The Collection contains information regarding the Jewish communities in Bavaria which were affected by the Kristallnacht riots.

  5. Collection of the Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6212257
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Announcement Circular Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Document Financial accounts Laws and decrees Letter List of murdered Jews from the Netherlands Lists of businesses and skilled workers Newspaper Note Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons Reports Statistical reports

    Collection of the Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) was established in The Hague by the Germans as a department in the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft (Office for Finance and Industry) in 1940; order VO 26/1940 established that the Germans would administer all property owned by people who were defined as the Enemy in the Netherlands, meaning the property of Dutchmen residing in the Allied countries, and the property of citizens of the Allied countries residing in the N...

  6. Documentation from the Badisches Finanzministerium (Baden Finance Ministry), regarding Aryanization

    Documentation from the Badisches Finanzministerium (Baden Finance Ministry), regarding Aryanization

  8. Service Européen de Recherches (SER– European Search Service) card catalogue of deportees from France, 1940-1946

    Service Européen de Recherches (SER– European Search Service) card catalogue of deportees from France, 1940-1946 In the card catalogue: Names of family members of Jews from France who were deported by the Germans from various places; indicated on the card: the name of the deportee, year and place of birth, nationality and the name of the camp to which s/he was deported.

  9. Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Sachsen

    Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Sachsen

  10. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Grodno, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Grodno, 1940-1941 The Collection includes reports reviewing propaganda activities in the district and pre-election activities; reports from the Committee meetings.

  11. M.41.TsNANANB - Documentation from the Central Scientific Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

    M.41.TsNANANB - Documentation from the Central Scientific Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus The collection includes testimonies and memoirs of residents of Belorussia regarding their experiences in the ghettos, including the establishment of Judenraten, forced labor, starvation and murder of Jews, underground activities, and service in various partisan detachments and in the Red Army, 1941-1944.

  12. O.41.2 - Names of people who perished during the Holocaust, on gravestones in cemeteries

    Names of people who perished during the Holocaust, on gravestones in cemeteries

  13. O. 21 - M. Weichert Collection about Jewish Social Welfare in the Generalgouvernement: Documentation regarding the activities of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS - Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in Poland during the German occupation, and documentation regarding Michal Weichert

    O. 21 - M. Weichert Collection about Jewish Social Welfare in the Generalgouvernement: Documentation regarding the activities of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS - Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in Poland during the German occupation, and documentation regarding Michal Weichert Michal Weichert was born in Podhajce, eastern Galicia, Poland, 1890. He attended Polish schools, earned a degree in law at the University of Vienna, and also attended the Theater Arts Academy in Berlin. Upon his return to Poland, he established the Young Yiddish Theater in Warsaw. He served as a Yiddish t...

  14. M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966

    M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966 In the Record Group there are files from the following regional archives in Ukraine: the State Archive in the Lvov region, the State Archive in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, the State Archive in the Chervovtsy region, the State Archive in the Khmelnitskiy region, the State Archive in the Vinnitsa region, the State Archive in the Kiev region, the State Archive in the Rovno region, the State Archive in the Ternopol region, the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Lvov), the State Archive of the Office of Internal Affairs...

  15. M.52.DAChrkO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Cherkasy Region

    M.52.DAChrkO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Cherkasy Region History of the Archives The Archive was first established in Cherkasy in April 1919; it was called the Regional Archive of Cherkasy in 1925. The name of the Archive was changed to the State Historical Archive of Cherkasy in 1932 and it became a branch of the State Archive of the Kiev Region in 1941. During World War II much of the documentation in the Archive was damaged. Following the establishment of the Cherkassy region in 1954, the name of the Archive was changed to the State Archive of the Cherkassy Region. A b...

  16. Documentation of the Stiftungsaufsicht (Funds Inspectorate) of the Amtsgericht (Court of Law) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Stiftungsaufsicht (Funds Inspectorate) of the Amtsgericht (Court of Law) in Hamburg

  17. Collection of legal material from the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, Germany, 1960-1971

    Collection of legal material from the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, Germany, 1960-1971 Collection of copies of materials from German Courts of Law in the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, Germany, regarding verdicts against Nazi war criminals, 1960-1971; Included in the collection: Copies of verdicts of the Schwurgericht bei dem Landgericht (Circuit Court at the District Court) in various cities in Germany, 1960-1971.

  18. Collection of documentation regarding Anda Eker

    Collection of documentation regarding Anda Eker

  19. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis In the Collection there is documentation including testimonies regarding the resistance of the Czechoslovakian Jews against the Germans during World War II. The people interviewed include former soldiers and officers who fought in the Czechoslovakian Army, Jews who fought in the Royal British Air Force, served in partisan battalions in the Soviet Union or participated in the National Slovak Uprising. There are also testimonies regarding the treatment of Jewish s...

  20. Collection of M. H. Bregstein in the Netherlands, 1940-1956

    Collection of M. H. Bregstein in the Netherlands, 1940-1956 Bregstein was born in 1900. He was a lecturer in Law at the Hogeschool van Rotterdam during 1934-1939. He was appointed Attorney General of the Netherlands in 1940. He was dismissed from this position in the same year, due to his Jewish origin. After the war, he was accepted to the Council for the Restitution of Justice and Law in the banking securities registration department and was an advisor to the Netherlands Ministry of the Treasury in the matter of the property which had been confiscated by the Nazis.